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morning

so i picked up a copy of 'shortlist' today, its a free mens mag in the same vein as nuts and zoo, but with much less boobs, given out on a thursday in london. (and other places im sure, but theres where i get mine)

i tend to keep my eye out for these every thursday as they are generally quite a good read, the column im particularly fond of though is by a writer/producer called 'danny wallace' who wrote the book 'yes man'. i read this book last year, and really enjoyed it, more than anythiung though this guy seems to be of a like mind as myself on a variety of topics and in face in the way he writes, so its always an entertaining read for me!

anyway, you can find more about shortlist here

oh also of note is that todays article is about sandwiches, something which i am yet to rant about on here, but which i feel very strongly about!

wednesday lunch with the big man!

so todays lunch was with mr paul! we went to vital ingredients and then back to the work cafe, which is based in another building, which is much nicer than our own and has better seating for lunch!

anyway vital ingredients is a salad place, its basically the argos of the salad world, although with much better quality!

i had a cobb salad

cost: 5.25

quality: very good, although i think i had way too much blue cheese dressing, must remember to cut back on that.

thin or thick pancakes

so yesterday was shrove tuesday, and as is tradition, we used up all our leftover items from the cupboard before fasting for lent.............

....ok so thats not entirely true, we went out out and bought extra maple syrup, blueberries, bananas, toffee sauce, nuts, cream, milk, toffee sauce, creme freshe and nutella............

....but the essence of shrove tuesday was there

anyway this is besides the point, what i actually wanted to talk about was the choice of think or thick pancakes, like very briton, i was brought up on think, flappy lemon and sugar pancakes, and theres nothing wrong with this....until you vist america and realise that you can make pancakes a whole lot thicker....smaller too.............but much thicker and therefore more robust... they seem more filling and are easier to flip, but are they tastier???

well i dunno, my girlfriend claims she prefers the thin ones, i mean to me a pancake is a pancake, i think the thicker ones certainly take longer to eat, and when stacked they are a hearty meal for any man, so for me the main difference is how well they flip....and its more fun to flip the thick small pancakes than big floppy ones.....

so there you have it.

whispers on the tube

ive noticed today how everyone talks very quietly to each other on the tube, i dont mean to your mate, who you'll probably talk quite loudly to in fact, i mean when you bump into somene and go...

"sorry"

but in the quietest raspiest voice you ca manage....

also

"excuse me"

no idea why, i think people strain to be curtious, or dont want to get noticed....either way, just something i noticed today.

actors are using their fame to further their own careers!.....SHOCK !

ok so yesterday i saw one of those evening standard ads outside the newsagents that read:

actors fight demolition of local theatres


or something to that accord..........and it bugged me....i mean ive got nothing against the maintainance or theatre, or keeping old landmarks, in fact im quite in favour of it, but it bugs me actors stand up for this, but bugger all else...i mean its not like you get headlines that say

best plumbers fight to save local swimming baths

no it has to be a bloody celebrity! but what gets me is that this particular thing, 'celebs fight ban of local theatre' is so clealry routed in their own buisness...its where they work, so clealry they are going to fight to keep it open, its good buisness! i mean if you were a baker and they were going to close your backery to put in a a bypass, you would fight it, but it wouldn't be newsworthy....no because your not a celebrity baker....

look at kevin spacey and his sucess in keeping the old vic open.......because hes kevin fucking spacey...and now he virtually runs the place. you know if you go to their cafe in the basement of the old vic, its filled with black and white photos of kevin spacey, its like a shrine!


anyway, the point to this rant, is that celebritys dont deserve to be newsworthy simply because they are doing something to furhter their own careers, woohoo keep a theatre open, well done, get a fucking medal and shut up, or go and do something useful!

thats what i think anyway.

MB

burrito again

now i know i said i woudlnt do burritos again, but my new team at work made me do it! they said i had to buy em all burritoes!!! as an initiation....... which i didnt do...but i did lead them to the alternative burrito place....EL BURRITO!

where: el burrito

what: a beef burrito withouth guac

cost: 4.50 (note: cheaper than mexicalli!)

quality: very god, in fact i think its better than mexically in terms of the quality of ingredients, the overall taste is still up for debate!

tuesday madness and....mondays lunch

sorry about not posting yesterday , got caught up moving desks at work...which ended up moving nowhere, since they had nothing in place for me to move to...so im now the office nomad....i feel kinda sleeazy searching out ill peoples desk to work from.... its wrong and i know it!

FIND ME A DESK!

also in another typical cock up from HR, my account has been deleted, so i dont have access to booking time off, or an extension number (which is kinda redundant when i dont have a desk either!).

sooo yesterdays lunch.....

an early sandwich...swiss cheese, salami..salad.....very good

where: bijans

cost: 2.20....

quality: very good, but due to not having a desk i went out for lunch early abotu 12...so when lunch hit at 1.... i wastn hungry, so i had a tropical smoothee to tide me over...which actually worked out quite well...butler had curry....which was an odd thing to serve at a smoothee bar, but there you go, it did smell good

in other news, today is shrove tuesday...or as its also know...pancakce day! traditionally a day to eat up all your leftover items before you fast for lent....nowadays, its a day to buy loads of items you'll never use all year round, like syrup, and a bag of flour, which lets be honest stays at the back of the cupboard until you fancy yourself a baker....

anyway...there we go, oh and thanks to everyone who's visited my mini city! population now....6!

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MB

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Tim Curry is the devil

so apparently tim curry is the devil in legend...........i always thought it was anthony steward head from buffy...........oh well...i guess tim curry makes more sence, he is more famous. now i owe mark a pint!



...bugger

friday, end of week lunch

well today was burrito again....markc choice since today is officially his last day at work here......... that means ive had burrito's two times this week....geeeeze that can't be good. but they are so tasty...its like the dark side of the force.....seducing you!

sooo it was:

port burrito

cost: 5.70 (no drink this time)

quality: great as usual

...although im feeling very stuffed an unfit now....think im getting a bit of heartburn too... must have more green tea and less burrito....

burrito: food of the dark side